Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Those Good Old Days—Make Your Old Pictures New
Bored? Why not get your old family album and detach all the pictures and let the scanner do the work? This will help you preserve those old photos. Having a soft copy of those photos is more creative than pasting them in albums. When days go by, you can print those old pictures and arrange them in another album.
Old pictures are worth keeping but the components of the photo paper might not last as expected. Those memorable days printed in old photographic papers are no can still be a part of your old collection. Some older photographic papers have unique surfaces that are no longer produced. In this connection, certain photographic periodicals contain actual prints rather than graphic reproductions.
Take the innovation of using your scanner to preserve those old pictures of yours. This can be used for future reference specially on reunions and family gatherings. You can bring back the memories by keeping old photos in your closet with soft copies of them. Just in case you want to reproduce some then the availability of copies are ready.
The picture settings can be changed which is more artistic as you go over and use some applications and softwares. It is always funny when you see those pictures when you were once a little child giving up the biggest smile with one tooth which you were proud of for the camera to capture. Old fashioned clothes and hair styles are also good to look at as they evolve and simply come back in trends today. A single picture can be a trace of historical tracks of the days of your life.
You can compile old class pictures too. You will add flavor to your collection if you will send those old scanned pictures to your childhood classmates. This will somehow make your bonding closer even throughout the distance. Pictures are the best evidence on how your life before differs from the life you are enjoying today. Gather all the old pictures now! Scan them, print them and enjoy!
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Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
As a photographer, you are up against stiff competition when it comes to getting gigs or jobs.
Newspapers, magazines, weddings, family and student photos – how do you reach the multitude of people who may be interested in hiring you?
Portfolios are expensive and targeting the many different segments of the population who would benefit from your services is no simple marketing feat.
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By building your own photography website to showcase your work and your services, you handle all these problems in one fell swoop.
Digital photography offers you the ability to share your work with the world. Many magazines and newspapers will only take submissions in .jpeg or .gif formats. The days of negatives, proof sheets, and slides are over. Though you may still choose to offer 35 millimeter prints or other specialty photo services, digital photography is where the money is in the industry.
Lucky for you! Digital photographs take less than a minute to upload to your web host. At variable qualities, you can showcase the different styles of photography at which you are proficient. Other things you can do with your photography site include:
- List hours and services and prices. If you are only available to work at night and on weekends, list this on your site. Also, list different services that you provide including wedding photography, baby and pregnancy pictures, family portraits, student photos, pet photography, and more. Listing prices is not a requirement, but something that is highly recommended. Offering a variety of packages with the option to customize will help potential customers know right away whether or not they can afford your services.
- Special deals or discounts. Monthly discounts or special deals for first time customers, discounts for repeat customers or multiple packages can also be displayed on your photography website. They may also be a good ‘time clock’ incentive if they are updated frequently and set to change within a week or less.
- Offer a subscription service. Another option you may consider is offering a subscription service for your photography through your site. Many need stock photography for their websites, brochures, flyers, et cetera. Some may even need these on a regular basis. Offering one time downloads and a subscription service with a wide net of types of photography may be one way to increase your sales revenue while shooting whatever you like and increasing your portfolio.
- Order prints. Opt for a shopping cart on your site and allow those who may have just stopped by to check you out to purchase a print for download instantly.
- Commission order forms. For customized orders or packages or to set up special shoots, you can design an order form for your photography website that will allow them to be as specific as they like about what exactly it is that they’re looking for.
- Offer photographic services. List and define your services in detail. Some may not even realize that they are looking for the exact photographic service that only you can provide.
- Contact info. Include everything that a potential customer may need: email address, land line, cell phone, studio address.
- Part of the community. Connect to the rest of the photography community by offering a link page: photo supply sites, framers, videographers, et cetera.
- Be creative. Show your diversity, talent, and imagination. Inspire your clients to inspire you.
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
The new Alamy Photo Collection app for iPad showcases stunning pictures from the world’s largest independent photo agency.
Alamy’s CEO, James West says “The Alamy Photo Collection app is beautifully simple – it’s free, it looks great, it’s updated every day, and it brings the Alamy brand to an exciting new device for a global audience of photography enthusiasts.”
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
Taking a good photo isn’t as hard as you may think.
You don’t need the most expensive camera or years of experience, just 10 simple tips.
Enjoy!
Tip 1 – Use All Your Available Space Don’t be afraid to use all the space in your photo. If you want to take a picture of something, it’s ok for it to take up the whole shot with no or very little background showing. Keep distractions out of your shot.
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Tip 2 – Study Forms This is a vital aspect to photography. Understanding forms in your photos. Don’t see an object, she its shape and its form and find the best angle to photograph it from. Form is all around us and I highly suggest you read as many books on it as possible.
Tip 3 – Motion In Your Photos Never have motion in your photos if you are photographing a still object. If there is something moving while you are trying to photograph a stationery object, your photo won’t turn out anywhere near as well. Also never put a horizon line in the center of your frame.
Tip 4 - Learn To Use Contrasts Between Colors. Some of the best photos have shades of white, gray and black. You can take great shots with just one color on your subject, but the contrasts between colors in a shot is what makes you a great photographer.
Tip 5 – Get Closer To Your Subject This is one of the biggest mistakes most photographers make, not getting close enough to their subject. Get up and personal and close the distance gap. You can always reshape and resize a good shot but you can’t continue to blowup a distant object.
Tip 6 - Shutter Lag Shooting action shots with digital camera’s can be tricky due to shutter lags. What this means is, when you press the button to take the photo, it can take up to a second for the shutter to take a photo, by that time what you were photographing would have moved or changed somehow.
This means you have to compensate for shutter lag by predicting what your subject is going to do and taking the photo just before it takes the action you want. More expensive digital cameras don’t have this problem.
Tip 7 – Pan If you are taking an action shot and your shutter speed is slow, pan with the object. Follow through with the subject, from start to finish and one of those shots will be a winner. You have more chance of getting a good shot if you take more then one photo.
Tip 8 – Continuous Shots To pan like I suggested above you will need a camera that does continuous shots and doesn’t need to stop and process after every shot.
Tip 9 – How To Take Fantastic Night Time Shots Night time shots can be spectacular, almost magical…. if done right! If not they can look horrible. Really horrible. Without adequate lighting, even good camera’s can turn out crappy photos if the photographer doesn’t know what he or she is doing.
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
When it comes to the internet and the advancements of modern technology, the revenue generating options are truly unlimited. One way that many people are finding great success as entrepreneurs is through the use of their digital cameras and photo printers.
Whether you use your digital knowledge to enter photo contests using images taken with your digital camera or choose to start an online auction business, the use of a both camera and photo printer are essential.
With entrepreneurship in mind, the following five tips may help to get you started on the road to success using nothing more than your digital camera and photo printer.
1) Start an eBay business and use your digital camera to take pictures for inclusion in your auctions. If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much money will it be worth for your auction? After all, would you buy something without seeing it?
- Become an amateur photographer using your digital camera and print out the images using a realistic photo printer, which can use either black or color ink.
- Create personalized calendars by taking a photo with your digital camera, incorporating it into a calendar creation program and print them out using a photo printer. These are extremely popular at craft shows and flea markets.
- Take photos using your digital camera and incorporate them into a program that manipulates photos. You can even take two photos and merge them together. For instance, take a photo of two sunflowers and another of your two best friends. Download the images from your digital camera onto the computer and manipulate them so that the faces of your two best friends are inside of the sunflowers. Print this photo using your photo printer and use it as an example of your new digital imagery business. These, too, are extremely popular at craft shows.
- Using nothing more than a digital camera and quality photo printer, you can work in the publishing industry. Several years ago, a national magazine cover featuring a well-known celebrity was created with nothing more than a personal photo printer. The magazine office was unable to make an e-mailed image work, so they enlisted the help of a writer who enlarged the photo and printed it out using a color photo printer. The print was then mailed to the magazine’s office, who then used the image as their full-color cover picture.
When purchasing any type of electronics, including digital cameras and photo printers, always pay close attention to the warranty and make sure that you are buying a quality name in technology.
Depending on your intended use, you may want to select a digital camera with a high pixel count and a photo printer capable of producing high DPI (dots per inch) images. Both will allow for better quality and more realistic photo creations.
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